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Boulders Beach

Illegal kelp removal

Removing kelp without a permit? Removing kelp within the Boulders Restriced Zone? That’s poaching my friend

By Dylan Irion, 6 yearsMarch 7, 2019 ago

Revisiting the kelp map

Out with the Old… Several months back I wrote a blog detailing a preliminary method for classifying kelp from satellite imagery, based on some methods from researchers in California. We drew a couple conclusions from this. Namely, that the resolution of the LANDSAT imagery was not high enough for the Read more…

By Dylan Irion, 6 years ago

LANDSAT8

Estimating Kelp cover from LANDSAT imagery

Monitoring the distribution of kelp We love kelp here at Cape RADD, if you haven’t gotten that by now then I don’t know what you’re reading. I try to use the word kelp in a sentence at least once a day and I am pretty sure I’ve seen Jessie feed Read more…

By Dylan Irion, 7 yearsApril 15, 2018 ago

School of fish in kelp

Incredible Kelp, Keystone of the Environment

We’re in love with all things kelp here at Cape RADD. We love kelp and we love lookin’ at it. Kelp forever! That’s why we loved this new Open-Access article published Tuesday in the journal Functional Ecology. Noisette F, Hurd C. Abiotic and biotic interactions in the diffusive boundary layer Read more…

By Dylan Irion, 7 yearsMarch 22, 2018 ago